Full Title: We Have the Power: 100% Renewable Energy for a Clean, Thriving America
Author(s): Frontier Group
Publisher(s): Frontier Group
Publication Date: March 1, 2016
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Description (excerpt):
America can address our largest environmental challenges by shifting to 100 percent renew- able energy. Renewable energy makes us safer and healthier, protecting our communities from global warming and from hazardous air pollution. Renewable energy reduces the need for dangerous and destructive practices like shipping explosive fuels through our cities, fracking for gas near our water sup- plies, or razing our mountains to dig up dirty coal.
An economy powered by 100 percent renewable energy is within our reach. First, we can reduce the total amount of energy we use through improved e ciency, even as our economy continues to grow. Second, we can tap America’s virtually inexhaustible supplies of energy from the wind, the sun, the land and the oceans.
Our transition to a clean energy system has already begun. But, with the need to reduce the pollution that causes global warming growing more urgent every day, we need to step up the pace. To maximize the bene ts of moving to 100 percent renewable energy, leaders at all levels must act to accelerate our progress. America’s energy policy should facilitate mass deployment of clean energy solutions, sup- port research and development of new clean energy technologies, and keep much of our coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground.